Art as information: Explaining Upper Palaeolithic art in western Europe

Barton, C. Michael; Clark, Geoffrey A.; Cohen, Allison E.

doi:10.1080/00438243.1994.9980272

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“…Nevertheless, recent attempts to identify the archaeological signature of children (e.g. Barton et al 1994;Mithen 1991). In other cases, episodes of pedagogy can be inferred through detailed spatial and technological analyses of artefact forms and distribution patterns that suggest a close connection between individual enskillment and contact with master craftsmen.…”

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Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions

2008

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In this article we seek to build on efforts to apply the insights of social learning theory to interpret patterns of continuity and change in the archaeological record. This literature suggests that stable and often highly arbitrary material culture traditions are likely to be founded on our biologically-evolved capacity for imitation. However, it has recently been argued that the latter may be insufficient to explain the long-term maintenance of complex and difficult-to-master skills, such as those required to produce stone tools, pots, textiles and other cognitively opaque cultural forms. To ensure that these skills are accurately transferred to the next generation, adults must actively guide and control the learning activities of their children, a mode of transmission that can be labelled 'pedagogy'. The importance of pedagogy has often been overlooked in the theoretical and empirical literature on craft learning, a fact that can probably be attributed to an unnecessarily narrow conception of teaching that equates it with explicit linguistic instruction. Using ethnographic data gathered from detailed case studies, we characterise pedagogy in the context of craft apprenticeships as involving the gradual scaffolding of skill in a novice through demonstration, intervention and collaboration. Although these processes cannot be directly observed in the archaeological record, they can sometimes be inferred through the detailed reconstruction of operational chains in past technologies.The evidence we present suggests that pedagogy has played an essential role in securing the faithful transmission of skills across generations, and should be regarded as the 2 central mechanism through which long-term and stable material culture traditions are propagated and maintained.

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Section: Toward An Archaeology Of Pedagogymentioning

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Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions

2008

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“…También sostenemos que constituyen una forma de comunicación a partir de la transmisión de información, tal como se ha sugerido desde diversos marcos teóricos (Barton et al 1994;David y Lourandos 1998;Carden 2008;Re 2010;McDonald y Veth 2011;Scheinsohn 2011;Gallardo et al 2012, entre otros). En este sentido, entendemos que poseen un valor adaptativo para los grupos humanos (sensu Wobst 1977), por lo cual deben necesariamente ser evaluadas en el contexto de sus condiciones socioecológicas particulares.…”

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Espacios Internodales en Patagonia Septentrional: Biogeografía, Información Y Mecanismos Sociales De Interacción

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“…The most richly decorated caves are situated in areas that were presumably used as refugia during harsh glacial conditions (Barton et al 1994;Gamble 1986;Jochim 1987). Accomplished rock art was created over a 25,000 year period at the end of the Last Glacial (Clottes 1994(Clottes , 1996, a time of tremendous climatic fluctuation.…”

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The causes and scope of political egalitarianism during the Last Glacial: a multi-disciplinary perspective

Shultziner

Stevens

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This paper reviews and synthesizes emerging multi-disciplinary evidence toward understanding the development of social and political organization in the Last Glacial. Evidence for the prevalence and scope of political egalitarianism is reviewed and the biological, social, and environmental influences on this mode of human organization are further explored. Viewing social and political organization in the Last Glacial in a much wider, multi-disciplinary context provides the footing for coherent theory building and hypothesis testing by which to further explore Authors are PEP members. human political systems. We aim to overcome the claim that our ancestors' form of social organization is untestable, as well as counter a degree of exaggeration regarding possibilities for sedentism, population densities, and hierarchical structures prior to the Holocene with crucial advances from disparate disciplines.

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Art as information: Explaining Upper Palaeolithic art in western Europe

Cited by 72 publications

References 41 publications

Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions

Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions

Espacios Internodales en Patagonia Septentrional: Biogeografía, Información Y Mecanismos Sociales De Interacción

The causes and scope of political egalitarianism during the Last Glacial: a multi-disciplinary perspective

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